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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
A post on a different thread got me to ponder why.Especially if you are allegedly C&R.Could it be for a log,is it measured also?I used to carry a scale but never a tape.To see a number followed by a decimal point makes me curious as to the type of scale unless the fish were weighed at a tackle shop.Do such posts promote a gamefish agenda?
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I can only answer for myself so I will.
I have weighed fish and released them before and as long as I revive them , they swim away just fine, they don't stand any chance at all in a cooler. I don't measure also, one or the other. In the past at the canal i used to ley the bass in the water along the rockweed and get a tape measurement of it pretty easily without even removing the fish from the water, that may have the least effect on the bass.
I have a Berkley scale that is ditgital and gives a decimal point. Plenty of people have this type of scale, the one I have is remarkably accurate still.
I sometimes like to see what a fish weighs if it's up over 30 pounds. I am not one of those guys who have caught hundreds and hundreds of bass over 30 pounds, so I'd like to see if it's a 40. Maybe someday I'll get a 50 if I should be so lucky.
I have no idea if such posts promote gamefish agenda and I don't see the correlation
do you mean weighing is bad or weighing and releasing is good?
Chris, I heard you were out there off the neck yesterday, I went out there too with Danny, it was flat calm, beautiful day. First time my skiff ever got out in front there.